There are citizens, native citizens, and NATURAL BORN CITIZENS.
“There are citizens, native citizens, and NATURAL BORN CITIZENS.”
Only in your imagination.
Natural and native are derived from latin ‘natus’ or ‘birth’. Natural-born and native-born have been used interchangeably. See this explanation below...
The Constitution itself does not define the term natural-born citizen. At the time of the adoption of the U.S. Constitution, under the common law, the terms native born citizen and natural born citizen were synonymous, but. the customary usage was to refer to such type of citizenship as “natural born” instead of “native born.”
The words “natural” and “native” are both derived from the latin word “natus” meaning birth. Blackstone’s Commentaries, Chapter X, defines natural-born subjects as:
“Natural-born subjects are such as are born within the dominions of the crown of England; that Is, within the ligence, or, as it is generally called, the allegiance of the king; and aliens such as are born out of it.”
The first definition of the word “natural” in Webster’s Dictionary Is “of, from or by birth” Literally translated both “naturalborn citizen” and “native-born citizen” mean citizen by and from birth. Black’s Law Dictionary defines “native” as “a naturalborn subject or citizen by birth; one who owes his domicile or citizenship to the fact of his birth within the country referred to.”
Black defines “natural born” as “In English law one born within the dominion of the King.” Black defines “naturalize” as “to confer citizenship upon an alien; to make a foreigner the same, in regard to rights and privileges, as if he were a native citizen or subject.” Bancroft’s History of the U.S. (1876) VI, xxvi. 27, states. “Every one who first saw the light on the American soil was a natural-born American citizen.”